5 Components of the Quest Model
Q
Question and Explore
Surface Question
Main lesson from animal farm
The weaknesses of communism/socialism, the dangers presented by an uneducated working class, and the allure of power. To explain why the Soviet Union was corrupt and failed.
Irony
Statement that delivers opposite of what is meant
Dramatic: Reader knows event before character : Know Brutus will kill Caesar before he does
Situational: Opposite of expected action occurs:the group of conspirators believing that assassinating Caesar will save Rome from declining into civil war
Verbal Irony: Meaning the opposite of what is said: Mark Antony saying that the conspirators are honorable when he really thinks of them as murderers
Simile
Comparison using like or as
U
Understand and analyze
2nd Level
Inferencing
A group of animals who rebel against humans and become their own masters. Things work smoothly at first, and the animals revel in their freedom and have equality. However, the pigs become power-hungry and become the new oppressors of the animals and become indistinguishable from humans.
Anachronism
Person, thing, idea that exists out of it's time in history
Ex: Brutus: Count the clock, Cassius: The clock has stricken three (Act I)
Conflict and types of conflict
Tension created within the plot
External
- Man vs society, man vs nature, man vs man, (man vs technology, man vs supernatural)
Internal
- Man vs Man
E
Evaluate multiple perspectives
3rd level
Using information critically: Evaluate, predict, hypothesize, plan
Blank Verse
Written in lines and stanzas
Upper class characters speak in verse
Tragedy
focus on a noble character who struggles against external challenges
S
Synthesize ideas
MLA Format
Double-spaced lines throughout the essay with paragraphs indented half an inch, size 12 Times New Roman font, and a double-spaced Works Cited page with a hanging indent.
theme
George Orwell's Animal Farm is a political allegory about revolution and power. Through the tale of a group of farm animals who overthrow the owner of the farm, Animal Farm explores themes of totalitarianism, the corruption of ideals, and the power of language.
Prose
Written in sentences and paragraphs
Lower class speak in prose
Iambic meter
rhythm of syllables and stress in a line of poetry
T
Team, transform, and transmit
Research
- Credible Website, journal article, image, peer reviewed, memoir, and literature.
Ideologies shown in Animal Farm
Communism, (Animalism!!), red scare, common ownership, eliminate class to create equality, but in reality creating inequality.
Soliloquy
act of talking while alone
Ex: Brutus power to take action (44-58) Brutus friendship ... Desire to kill Caesar
Iambic pentameter
alternates unstressed/stressed syllables equalling 10 syllables a line